Mourning Foley's death not enough

11:10 AM,
Aug. 26, 2014

Policinski

Written by

Gene Policinski

To just mourn the brutal death of photojournalist James Foley ... seems not enough. To just be sickened by the shabby and cowardly manner in which he was beheaded by the terrorist group ISIS ... feels inadequate.

And to hear his killers say Foley died in retaliation for U.S. military airstrikes in Iraq ... is to face the twisted logic of generational vendettas that so scar the Middle East conflict on which Foley was reporting.

Foley, 40, was kidnapped in November 2012 while reporting on the Syrian civil war for a Boston-based online news organization, Global Post. He also had worked for PBS ...